- Current report filing (8-K)
January 06 2009 - 1:21PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities
and Exchange Act of 1934
Date of
Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 31,
2008
LCA-VISION
INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State
or Other Jurisdiction
of
Incorporation)
|
0-27610
(Commission
File
Number)
|
11-2882328
(IRS
Employer
Identification
No.)
|
7840
Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio
|
45236
|
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
|
(Zip
Code)
|
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code: (513) 792-9292
N/A
(Former
Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions (
see
General
Instruction A.2. below):
¨
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¨
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240.13e-4(c))
Item
5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in
Fiscal Year.
On
December 31, 2008, the Board of LCA-Vision Inc. (the “Company”) approved
amendments to the Company’s By-Laws to ensure that all stockholders have advance
notice of nominations of directors and the proposal of other business, as
applicable, to be brought before stockholders at an annual meeting.
Prior to
the adoption of these amendments, a stockholder could have presented a slate of directors or
proposed business before an annual meeting without the Company or any other
stockholder being aware that such proposal would be raised. Thus,
stockholders could have been asked to vote on such matter without being provided with
any information on the matter. Similarly, a majority of stockholders
could have raised a proposal and adopted it without the vote of any other stockholder,
and again with no advance knowledge that the matter would even be considered at the
annual meeting, thereby disenfranchising the minority
stockholders. The Board of Directors believes that it is in the best
interests of stockholders that all stockholders be given advance notice of all matters intended to
be raised at an annual meeting. These advance notice provisions do
not prohibit any stockholder from nominating a slate of directors at, or proposing
other business before an annual meeting, but merely require advance notice of
the intent to bring such nomination or proposal and a minimal amount of
information regarding the nominees or the proposal. These provisions
are similar to those of many public companies.
Specifically,
the By-Laws were amended to add new Section 1.2 to Article I and Section 2.2 to
Article II, which now provide that a stockholder seeking to propose business or
submit a director nomination at an annual meeting must provide notice to the
Company not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days prior to the first
anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that if
the annual meeting is advanced by more than 30 days, or delayed by more than 30
days, from such anniversary date, such notice must be delivered not later than
the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such annual meeting
or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of
such meeting is first made.
The
amended By-Laws also require the stockholders making such proposals or
nominations to disclose, among other things, all ownership interests, hedges,
economic incentives (including synthetic or temporary stock ownership) and
rights to vote any shares of any security of the Company. In addition, the
amended By-Laws provide that a stockholder bringing other business at a
stockholders’ meeting or making a director nomination must be a stockholder not
only at the time of giving notice of the proposal or nomination, but also at the
time of the annual meeting.
Section
1.3 (formerly section 1.2) of Article I already provided that only the Board of
Directors or a duly designated committee of the Board of Directors may call a
special meeting of stockholders. This section was amended to clarify
that the only business that properly may be brought before a special meeting of
stockholders is business specified in the notice of the meeting, or any
supplement thereto, given by the Company or otherwise properly brought before
the meeting by the presiding officer, at the direction of the Board of Directors
or by an authorized committee of the Board of Directors. This
amendment was made to avoid any confusion that the advance notice provision,
described above, would permit stockholders to bring any proposals before a special
meeting called by the Board of Directors.
The
amended By-Laws are included as Exhibit 3(b) to this Current Report on Form 8-K
and are incorporated herein by reference.
Item
9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
Exhibits.
Exhibit
3(b) Bylaws, as amended effective as of December 31,
2008
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
LCA-VISION INC.
|
|
/s/ Michael J.
Celebrezze
|
Michael
J. Celebrezze
|
Senior
Vice President/Finance and
|
Chief Financial
Officer
|
Date: January
6, 2009
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